Archive | PermalinkRafe's 6 Month Birthday

It is Adik's half birthday! Yaya says, "But he's still zero!!" While he's not one yet, he's already 1/2 year old, but apparently we haven't taught Yaya fractions.

Can you believe six months have gone by, because I certainly can't! There is going to be a lot of pictures in this entry - so I warn you in advance!

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Archive | Permalink47 Months

One more month till the big birthday!! Can you believe it? We certainly cannot!

We had another activity filled month - the 5 days Zarin was here were quite busy (more on that later). I know, I still owe entries on Jo's visit, but I'll get there!

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Archive | PermalinkHappy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day!! We tried to make it a good one for Vin, his first Father's Day as the father of multiple children. First off let's start with home-made cards:

Mama helped by manning the sharp scissors to cut the string paper dolls out. Yaya wrote and decorated her own card (the hearts design) and was kind enough to write and decorate a card on behalf of her baby brother (the people design). She's getting good at writing PAPA, no?

Keywords: alya,around_the_house,baseball,rafiq

Archive | PermalinkSpace Ghost

I has some time to spare one morning and thought I'd draw one of the old classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons. I was then torn between two characters: Space Ghost or Tundro of the Herculoids. Ultimately I thought I'd give Space Ghost a try.

Using brush and ink, I tried giving Space Ghost a dramatic central shadow. The illustration was scanned and coloured digitally using GIMP. Finally, the colour layer was run through GIMP's Ziptone filter to give it a comic book feel.

Click here for a bigger image on DeviantArt.

Space Ghost, I've since learnt, was designed for Hanna Barbera by famed cartoonist and comic book artist Alex Toth.

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Archive | PermalinkHow Everyone Lost Their Tooth In Sitiawan

We balik kampung to Sitiawan the other week and everyone - Irfan, Ain and I - lost one tooth each while there.

Irfan extracted his own tooth even before we arrived at Atok & Opah's house. He proudly showed his freshly drawn molars. He's been doing it a lot with his baby teeth lately.

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Archive | PermalinkAbang Ngah's Wedding

Six years ago we attended Abang Long's wedding kenduri at Kampung Permatang during a balik kampung trip back to Sitiawan. It was now time for his younger brother Abang Ngah's wedding, though technically the aqad was performed in Ipoh the previous weekend. As always it was great to see relatives pooling together to get the kenduri running, working the logistics, greeting and serving guests.

We had visited the previous night when they were building up the main table and backdrop from scratch. The following morning it looked like this:

Here are assorted photos from the kenduri that day.

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Archive | PermalinkWestward RPG Critters - Part 1

Wicked North Games, who produced the Azamar role-playing game, using the Cinema6 engine, based on the classic West End Games' Open D6 system, will be producing a new RPG.

The game is entitled Westward and employes a steampunk western setting on another planet in the far future. I have been commissioned to draw some critters that will inhabit the badlands of Westward. Because the Westward Kickstarter campaign has been very successful, Wicked North Games will be publishing a full-colour core rule book! Here is an early preview of the critters of the setting.

Water Nymph

Spongeweed

Snerg

Rust Polyps

Gorger

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